Tuesday sees a good team effort during my ice hockey game as we win, 4-0. It was probably the best game that I have played since my comeback. I only get one assist, but I feel more in the flow of the game and don't make any serious mistakes.
On Friday, having lost my way, I drink. This would be the first time that I have drank at home since June or July (and only the third time that I have drank at all). Person T*, Person M_C, and Person J_VKPI catch me on the phone as I'm stagerring around the house. In retorspect I do not quite know why I drank.
Saturday sees a good day with a bicycle ride, the laundry, the yard work, some shopping, and some good relaxation. For the most part the day is spent away from people (as is necessary for me occasionally) and is uneventfull. (The only discrepant event is on the bicycle ride when all blue line train crossings are shut down to some police action onboard a train. I just have to take surface streets to the LA River trail.)
On Saturday night I pick up Person J_VKPI and we head for a club in West Hollyood. He's upset because he just received a speeding ticket and is worried about traffic school, insurance rates, a police record, etc. "Yes, you are now a felon", I say in order to help him out. But later I explain all of the tickets that I've had (and many more occasions where I've been yelled at by police officers and not given tickets) and that my insurance rates never went up.
Person W is at the club. Person J_VKPI recognizes him from a single meeting many, many months ago. Person W and I have a good conversation, as usual, about atmospheric sciences and chemical reactions. But I teasingly am mad at Person W when he says that they are not using our EOS Aqua science data yet. "We spent $1 billion on that spacecraft and you're not using our data?" There are other people at the club who insist on brushing up against me and sizing me up as well as a few trivival conversations with people who "want to get to know me better tonight". These are met with, "Sorry, but I'm taken" firmly addressed to their requests. I am in bed by 2:45am on Sunday morning.
At 7am on Sunday morning I get up and go for a bicycle ride. This is followed by reading the newspaper and ice cream for breakfast. Dao comes over near 1pm and we head out to go rollerblading on this beautifull, sunny day. We rollerblade for about an hour and then we go have dinner. We talk about life and experiments and relationships and stuff. We go back and sit in my living room and talk more about weird topics. During the day there are calls from Person M_C, Person V_JKPI, and Brandon.
Operating on four hours of sleep, I lift weights at 6pm and take a Kava Root Extract to relax me for a long night of sleep. Will the telephone cooperate?